Is America The Lawless Super-power?

[AmariYah]

Friday, September 27, 2002 OPEN LETTER

THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

THE WHITE HOUSE

1600 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE NW

WASHINGTON DC 20500

Dear Sir:

Re: The National Security Strategy of the United States of America September 2002 (NSS USA)

I have the greatest respect for the American people who have effectively championed freedom and democracy in the 20th century with their wallets and with their blood. Nonetheless the current security strategy causes concern.

I The themes of the NSS USA : champion human dignity, strengthen alliances, defuse regional conflicts, prevent WMD, ignite the global economy, expand development, forge global powers co-operation, transform America?s security and "?rid the world of evil." (page 5) are almost messianic in scope.

II Your working definition of "rule of law" is limited to enforcing business deals or developing commerce in foreign countries. The following passages indicate your working definition of rule of law: page 10 "By tolerating ethnic minorities, respecting the rule of law, and accepting open markets, Indonesia?"; page 17 "rule of law and intolerance of corruption so that people are confident that they will be able to enjoy the fruits of their economic endeavours;"; page 19 "Trade policies can help developing countries strengthen property rights, competition, the rule of law, investments,?" page 19 "Commerce depends on the rule of law; international trade depends on enforceable agreements."; page 22 "We will continue to press the multilateral development banks to focus on activities that increase economic productivity, such as improvements in education, health, rule of law, and private sector development."; page 28 "The power of market principles and the WTO?s requirements for transparency and accountability will advance openness and the rule of law in China to help establish basic protections for commerce and for citizens." This definition of rule of law is limited and misleading.

III Black?s Law Dictionary defines rule of law as follows: "A legal principle, of general application, sanctioned by the recognition of authorities?The rule of law, sometimes call ?the supremacy of law? provides that decisions should be made by the application of known principles or laws without the intervention of discretion in their application." Bluntly speaking, from the time of the Magna Carta in the 13th century no person, no royalty, no government, no president and no superpower have been above the law. "When the representatives of the young republic of the United States of America gathered to draft a constitution, they turned to the legal system they knew and admired ? English common law as evolved from Magna Carta" www.archives.gov The Magna Carta states: "No freeman shall be taken, imprisoned,..or in any other way destroyed?except by the lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land. To no one will we sell, to none will we deny or delay, right or justice."

Yet it appears that your administration will administer justice by specially trained forces after an assessment by shadowy Intelligence types (See pages 15, 16, 25). There are basically two kinds of justice systems, those that administer justice by rule of law and those that administer justice by force. The latter can result from a democracy that descends into oligarchy and tyranny when a national leader emerges, at a time of crisis, who learns to push the buttons of voters. Such a tyrant engages in the appearance of democracy but orders his troops to press the assault because his opponents appear defenceless and he expects to obtain the approval of voters afterward. That is why so many Americans are vigilant about deception and abuses of power in their great freedom loving democracy.

It appears that your strategy does not follow the rule of law. On Tuesday, August 13, 2002 in the National Post Dr. Kissinger stated: "The new approach is revolutionary. Regime change as a goal for military intervention challenges the international system established by the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia, which, after the carnage of the religious wars, established the principle of nonintervention in the domestic affairs of other states. And the notion of justified pre-emption runs counter to modern international law, which sanctions the use of force in self-defence only against actual, not potential, threats."

Both the Calgary Herald, September 22, 2002 and the National Post, September 24, 2002 report that US military planners indicate the current plan is to swiftly decapitate Saddam Hussein and his regime using leaner and highly mobile forces. We don?t want to decapitate the leaders of other nations because we don?t want other nations to decapitate our leaders. Your strategy will result in the deaths of American servicemen, opponents, government officials, terrorists, suspected terrorists, bystanders, allied soldiers, and other men, women and children on a scale which we cannot accurately predict.

"It has taken almost a decade for us to comprehend the true nature of this new threat" you state at page 15 of the NSS USA. That is a little slow. After 10 years and billions of dollars of intelligence gathering , there is no published evidence, beyond a reasonable doubt, that Saddam Hussein is a terrorist threat to the USA. That is the standard of the rule of law. Black?s Law Dictionary uses a Model Penal Code definition of terrorist threat. "A person is guilty of a felony if he threatens to commit any crime of violence with purpose to terrorize another or to cause evacuation of a building, place of assembly, or facility of public transportation, or otherwise to cause serious public inconvenience, or in reckless disregard of the risk of causing such terror or inconvenience."

The CIA World Factbook virtually admits that the terrorist organization that mounted the World Trade attack was initially funded and trained by the CIA. It states:

"Afghanistan was invaded and occupied by the Soviet Union in 1979. The USSR was forced to withdraw 10 years later by anti-communist mujahidin forces supplied and trained by the US, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and others?" The media has been unanimous that Bin Laden was one of these forces. Why did the CIA train and fund the mujahidin? Were the activities of the CIA lawful? Were the activities of the CIA approved by the Senate and Congress? Were the activities tested by the judiciary?

One of the most recent global expressions of the rule of law is the International Criminal Court ? the ICC. One of the early advocates of the ICC is currently with the Supreme Court of Canada ? Justice Louise Arbour. In 1998 about 120 nations voted to create a permanent International Criminal Court to try war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. Seven nations opposed the treaty including Iraq, China, Israel, United States. We can understand why the leaders of Iraq, China and Israel oppose the treaty but why the United States. Kofi Annan, United Nations Secretary General has commented upon the ICC: "In the prospect of the international criminal court lies the promise of universal justice. We ask you? to ensure that no ruler, no State, no junta, and no army anywhere can abuse human rights with impunity. Only then will the innocents of distant wars and conflicts know that they, too, may sleep under the cover of justice; that they, too, have rights, and that those who violate those rights will be punished." This court and related courts should apply to all nations and the leaders of all nations, including Iraq, Israel, China and America.

Mr. President you alarm me when want American servicemen, CIA, and specially trained forces to be above the law. You state at page 31:

"We will take actions necessary to ensure that our efforts to meet global security commitments and protect Americans are not impaired by the potential for investigations, inquiry, or prosecution by the International Criminal Court (ICC), whose jurisdiction does not extend to Americans and which we do not accept. We will work together with other nations to avoid complications in our military operations and cooperation, through such mechanisms as multilateral and bilateral agreements that will protect U.S. nationals from the ICC."

There is no question that your strategy circumvents the rule of law as it has developed for hundreds of years.

IV NSS USA talks peace, peace, peace but it means war, war, war! There is reference to American trade disputes with the European Union, Canada, and Mexico at page 19. This probably understates the disputes in which the tribunals have been ruling against your administration and your administration has not been complying with the rulings. Historically trade disputes have been real good causes of war. A reference to a disagreement with Israel is at page 10. Significant American disagreements with Russia, India and China are lightly described at pages 27 and 28. American acts of war or war are threatened at pages 5, 6, 14, 15, 16, 25, 29, 30, and 31.

Can your administration fight the whole world all at once?

Sir Edward Heath signed the Treaty of Accession in January 1972 whereby the United Kingdom joined Europe. This single act virtually ended at least 2,000 years of wars between the Germans, French, Spanish, English, Italian and other European tribes. In THE COURSE OF MY LIFE ? THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF EDWARD HEATH, Sir Edward comments, at page 201: "The European Coal and Steel Community, established under the Treaty of Paris on 18 April 1951, was never an end in itself. Its primary purpose was political, to prevent France and Germany from ever fighting each other again and so to preserve peace in our own continent. Its instruments were economic, to control the materials required for the production of weaponry. As Robert Schuman had recognised, however, this was only an intermediate objective along the road to creating an ?ever closer union? in Europe" The development of the European Union is a working model, not necessarily the only model, but a working model of how disparate nations with different languages can share sovereignty for the purpose of achieving peace and prosperity. This working model can be applied to the entire globe.

However, the impetus for the present European Union was two terrible, two global wars. Just as it took two global wars to develop the European Union, so too it is reasonable, given a history of warfare from the beginning of civilization about 6,000 years ago, that the nations of the world will not share sovereignty on the scale of the European Union until there is another great war. WAR: MACROQUANTITATIVE RESEARCH BY J. M. G. VAN DER DENNEN TABLE 6: WAR FORECASTING DATA states: "From (historical) data, one could easily hypothesize the following rule: for each interval in which the human population doubles, there occur wars in which ten times as many people are killed as are killed by wars in the previous such interval." The European Union, WTO, and many, many global treaties and tribunals which resolve disputes, are one of the major reasons that we have not had a global war for some 50 years.

Mr. President, the NSS USA flies in the face of the rule of law as expressed in United Nations, the Europan Union, the WTO, the ICC, and other peacemaking efforts, treaties and institutions that have developed in the decades following the second world war. Commenting upon the Cuban Missile Crisis, Kruschev observed that any fool can start a war that no wise man can stop. It seems more likely than not, that your NSS USA strategy will ignite the scale of war that is all too common during 6,000 years of history. That is my greatest concern with the NSS USA.

I have the greatest respect for the Office of the President of the United States of America and I am grateful for this opportunity to exercise my right to freedom of speech which America has preserved with their wallets and with their blood.

Comment: above open letter distributed a few days after the President published his US NSS 2002 and is also found at the website www.foolishthoughts.com

[dgolvach]

Is America a lawless superpower? Answer: No

[BodhiDharma]

Is America a lawless superpower? : Yes.

We don't answer to anyone.

We are the richest and argueably the most powerful country on earth.

How are we not?

[AmariYah]

Just think about it! The Federal government of the United States quite often ignores even our own laws and regulations- not to mention the fact that the U.S. Govt. considers themselves to be above the international laws such as the Geneva Convention among others. We are most definitely a "super-power" and without much research it is easy to verify that we do not even keep our own laws as a country much less the laws of God. Yes, alas- as a country we are lawless!

(This is not a tough one to see IMO)

[BodhiDharma]

Just think about it! The Federal government of the United States quite often ignores even our own laws and regulations- not to mention the fact that the U.S. Govt. considers themselves to be above the international laws such as the Geneva Convention among others. We are most definitely a "super-power" and without much research it is easy to verify that we do not even keep our own laws as a country much less the laws of God. Yes, alas- as a country we are lawless!

(This is not a tough one to see IMO)

Word.

[followerofjesus]

Our country leaders don't murder citizens.

[BodhiDharma]

Our country leaders don't murder citizens.

They have.

Ever heard of Cointelpro? Check it out, we've murdered leaders of the black panthers, native american movements, and other progressive leaders. It's all on paper. COINTELPRO papers, read into them. (COunterINTELligencePROgram).

http://www.911uncovered.com/

could have happened again.

Also read the Northwoods documents. The government basically laid out plan on how they could stage attacks on the u.s. public in order to whip them into a sheeplike mindframe. They suggested doing things like blow up aircarriers, blowing up public buildings, and hijack planes. De Ja Vous, no?

Both cointelpro and the northwoods papers are both documented government initiatives.

[followerofjesus]

conspiracy only brings fear. As a christian fear & guilt have no bearing. If its true so what,bring it on. It means Armaggedon, Anathema Maranatha.Lord come quickly & collect your flock.

[BodhiDharma]

conspiracy only brings fear. As a christian fear & guilt have no bearing. If its true so what,bring it on. It means Armaggedon, Anathema Maranatha.Lord come quickly & collect your flock.

So what?

It does matter. Your basically saying that your ok with giving up all those souls that haven't been reached yet.

[followerofjesus]

you said that I didn't.